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What is position of equilibrium?

Posted on August 2, 2022October 2, 2024 Sarah Parkes

I’m sure you will all have seen a strip of magnesium burning in a Bunsen burner flame. It is a

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What is the ionic product of water?

Posted on April 26, 2022April 24, 2025 Sarah Parkes

Water self-ionises – essentially it reacts with itself to very small extent. We know this because even pure water has

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